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@sophiabush : Say her name. #NiaWilson She was 18. Heading home from a family gathering with her sister. Standing on an #Oakland train platform. She could’ve been you. She could’ve been me. She is us. Violence against women is a societal issue that is all of ours. And violence against women of color needs to be called out by ALL of us. Nia Wilson was murdered by a white supremacist on parole. John Lee Cowell. A man who singled out two women of color & slashed their throats in a stabbing that BART Police Chief Carlos Rojas deemed a “prison-style attack” that was among “the most vicious” he had ever seen in 30 years of policing. Her sister Letifah survived, cradling Nia in her arms & says she looked back at Cowell & “he was wiping off his knife & stood at the stairs. Just looked ... he just stood there, like it was nothing.” The next day he was apprehended on another Oakland train, when a woman saw him standing over another #WOC, hand reaching into his pocket. The police apprehended him today without incident. Which I must be honest, strikes me... We’ve all seen videos of unarmed black men being tased for simply sitting on the sidewalk, or being thrown violently onto the hoods of cop cars over traffic violations. Yet this man, this racist criminal intimidating riders on a passenger train a day after murdering a teenage girl & attempting to murder her sister, is gingerly handcuffed & spoken to in soft worlds? The double standard must end. The silence around the death of women of color must end. And WHILE we’re at it, the behavior of news media that attempts to tarnish a victim after her untimely death must end. Running a photo of Nia smiling with a handgun on the news? (Which UPDATE was a freaking rubber cell phone case!! TF!?) Rather than an image of her from her recent high school graduation? I own a gun. I own a few. If I were murdered by a senseless maniac & my family was robbed of me, do you for ONE MINUTE think the news would run photos of me at the shooting range first & fore